#worldcup2014

This is how people watch #worldcup 2014 in Singapore! 🙂
This is how I watch it too -)

Free kid gift after watching 😀

You know what sucks here, dont you 😉

E-books

E-books is lighter, cheaper, more accessible and importantly don’t take up any space to store in compared to physical books. Yet people who claim e-books are far “superior” than physical books probably never read books!

The feel of a real book in my hands & the act of flipping page by page instead of keeping staring at an emotionless screen are wonderful and probably irreplaceable.

Better Management

Lately, I’ve experienced  2 incidents that frustrated me a lot. The curse sounds simple: lost data!

First, I lost my 1-hour or so of work through LibreOffice. I have to admit, word document management is one of few drawbacks, together with hardware support probably (? – music played in Windows seems to sound better than in Ubuntu though its support certainly keeps improving), of Linux compared to Windows as Libre and its predecessors Open Office still can’t match the fellow M. Office in Windows. One encountered this before should know how it feels like…

Second, I’ve lost an entire archive folder without having any back-ups at all. Then in an attempt to recover it, I almost lost my whole disk storage for some stupid ignorance. What a pity! At least I managed to get the later back.

These 2 curses show how poor my (files) management is considering I’m an developer.. So I decide to do some researches & make some changes. I considered signing up for an online auto backup for my local files but I know it wouldn’t gonna help before I manage my local files better.

Two of my major changes are files/folders management (store it securely, access it easily & never lose it) and password management. I’m gonna talk a little a bit about the later.

To this day, to be honest, I still store all my passwords in a text files and just-a-little-better on Google Drive.

I don’t know how you do it but Google Drive at first seems not a bad choice for me.

First it’s a cloud services meaning I could access it everywhere.
Second I use Two-Step Verification meaning no one could access it without literally stealing my phone – damn secure isn’t it? Since I accept the fact that if I could ever lose my google account, I would lose all my other accounts that stored inside, this process makes sense.

After doing some research, I realise this is not perfect as it seems to be:

1. Google Drive is a 3rd party services, Google could stop it anytime they want.
2. Google could sell our data – we never know.
3. Passwords are stored manually & in the plain text
which means I would eventually have to create my own passwords for each site
which would then make me tend to use short, easy to remember passwords and eventually the same password thorough a list of sites.

Then I find KeePass who as a dedicated software does an arguably much better job than the Google Drive who is supposed to be just an advanced online storage like Dropbox.

As for the security, Google 2-step auth seems pretty decent but how about when your friends wanna borrow your laptop and accidentally see sth they’re not supposed to see. For KeePass, you have to enter your master password everytime you login. This is sometimes irritating but is 100% safe. KeePass do everything an “cascadeur” like Google can’t and offer even great features! Go explore!

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As a dev, I know the secret shortcut Shift + Delete. But after a few catastrophes, I realize human errors won’t always happen but when it happens, it’s costly. I try not to be lazy again. I would just “soft” delete it first and later go to the bin and trash it. I’m trying and would never ever use Shift + Delete again.

2046

It’s not wise to be too trendy as trends never last (whether it’s a game, fashion or technology) But it is good to keep up with the cutting edge technologies or notice what’s going on at the very least.

This hot game above is called 2046 – very popular at the moment yet soon it would be gone with the wind as fast as what happened to Flappy Bird and its older fellows. They all share a few similarities: simple rules, easy to play, purely for entertainment –  they help you kill your time in case you don’t know what to do with it 😉

The intriguing thing here is when you know the game’s “trick”, it’s relatively easy to earn points compared to just move the square randomly.

In a broader view, when you have a system in place, it’s much easier to move forwards. Things will surely go wrong. Obstacles will surely appear. But they’re not a big deal. System is indeed the biggest difference between SD & FS because moving around like headless bull won’t help even if you’re fast.

Updated:
Unbalace!
We’ve gotta be unbalaced & be focused as balance doeant seem to work!? 😉

Third affair

This is my 3rd & probably my best “affair” one within a year!

Now, Quick & Go!

Life waits for now man. So it has to be done now – right now – within a few days after the idea was born!

Priority doesn’t allow me to spend to much time on it. So it has to be done quickly – within a day or over a weekends.

• h^ts3xy: over a weekend on a beautiful weekend on around August (?) last year
• The other done but not yet published, quite hard also as it was really not my area of expertise
• This time, it’s done on a good & “free” Friday plus a few hours on the next Sat. Going to be published soon.

I’m excited to see it goes online & if it would bring something back. Of course, after a few attempts, I now have some experience & ideas how to get started.

Let’s see!

Thời Gian

Người ta thường nói thời gian vô tình, thời gian hững hờ. Nhưng thật sự thì Thời gian vật lý (physical time) tự nó chẳng có ý nghĩa gì. Thời gian tâm lý (psy time) & cách ta sử dụng thời gian mới thật sự quan trọng.

Người ta bảo: Ngày vui qua mau. Vâng, khi ta vui thì thời gian trôi qua rất mau. Những cuộc hẹn hò, những trận đấu bóng quan trọng qua nhanh như chơp mắt. Những cuộc nhậu nhẹt, những ván bài hay game lại thường kéo dài “thâu đêm suốt sáng” cũng là bởi lẽ vậy.

Ngược lại, cái ngày đầu tuần đi làm, 15′ dò bài cũ, khi ta buồn, thất tình, lo lắng, chán nản thì thời gian dài – dài lắm; cảm giác thật lâu, thật xa vời vợi…

Thức đêm mới biết đêm dài.
Thức tình mới biết tình dài hơn đêm!

Nhưng sự thật thì buồn hay vui thì 1 ngày cũng sẽ có 24h tiếng – không hơn mà chả bớt. Vậy nên hãy cứ vui lên; hãy làm những gì mình thích; hãy dùng thời gian sao cho hữu ích. Đó thật sự là lựa chọn của mỗi người vì chẵng có ai có làm hay quyết định dum bạn được (This is just words – not applicable nor practical ;))

Doing nothing is doing ill

Tình yêu làm thời gian qua mau;
Nhưng ngược lại thì thời gian cũng làm tình yêu qua mau.

time heals all wounds!?

Time may heal all wounds, but there will always be scars!

So how to actually heal those wounds? One is to let time make you forget, and at the same time, you also have to forgive it yourself.
The other is to find someone who is forgiving of your scars (forget your past if it’s bad) and more importantly make you feel like it just doesn’t exist or doesn’t matter at all.

Miracle may happen in the process in such a way that scar is really gone. But if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t matter. You already acknowledge it and no longer care…

Top WordPress Plugins

A list of top WordPress plugins that I’ve actually installed & used. Some are popular; some are not – but they are all extremely useful (at least to me)!

Note:

BE = For Back-end Usage only
MUST = the word already speaks for itself***** [5 start] = Top quality plugins, almost a must for most sites
**** [4 start] = What I’m using but may not necessary for all sites

Let me know if I’ve missed any great plugins! Thanks!!